I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It is impossible to travel faster than light, and certainly not desirable, as one’s hat keeps blowing off.”
Source: The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose
“It is impossible to treat a child too well. Children are spoiled by being ignored too much or by harshness, not by kindness.”
Source: What shall we wear to this party?: The man in the gray flannel suit twenty years before & after
“It is impossible to trip and fall while walking slowly.”
“It is impossible to underestimate the significance of your today's choices”
“It is impossible to understand addiction without asking what relief the addict finds, or hopes to find, in the drug or the addictive behaviour.”
Source: In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
“It is impossible to understand Crowley. unless we grasp that, like Madame Blavatsky and Mathers and Yeats and Florence Farr, he took magic as seriously as Lord Rutherford took atomic physics. Literary commentators often make the same mistake about Yeats: that he regarded magic as a romantic exercise in suspension of disbelief. Yeat's [sic] magical notebooks reveal this to have been untrue; they go into overwhelming detail about magical procedures and symbols and show that he continued to be obsessed by it long after he ceased to be a member of the Golden Dawn.”
Source: Aleister Crowley: The Nature of the Beast
“It is impossible to understand history, international politics, the world economy, religions, philosophy, or ‘patterns of culture’ without taking geography into account.”
“It is impossible to understand the consciousness working behind the door by the ordinary human mind if one has not self-realized.”
Source: Enter Heaven
“It is impossible to understand the economic system in which we are living if we try to interpret it as a rational scheme.It has to be understood as an awkward phase in a continuing process of historical development.”
“It is impossible to understand the history of economic thought if one does not pay attention to the fact that economics as such is a challenge to the conceit of those in power.”
Source: Human Action
“It is impossible to unite Christ and Baal -- their spirits cannot unite, their objects and purposes are entirely different; the one leads to eternal life and exaltation, the other to death and final destruction.”
Source: Journal of Discourses
“It is impossible to unsign a contract, so do all your thinking before you sign.”
“It is impossible to wait and weigh, in golden scales, the sentiments of prejudice and superstition that have gathered round the priests who are considered to be the custodians of Hinduism.”
Source: None High: None Low
“It is impossible to walk behind someone on a narrow cliff path without the idea of shoving them over the edge crossing one’s mind.”
Source: Case Study
“It is impossible to waste time prolonging your life.”
“It is impossible to win a contest with a helpless opponent since if you win you have won nothing.”
Source: The power tactics of Jesus Christ, and other essays
“It is impossible to win gracefully at chess.”
“It is impossible to win gracefully at chess. No man has yet said "Mate!" in a voice which failed to sound to his opponent bitter, boastful and malicious.”
“It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks, and the greatest of all prizes are those connected with the home.”
Source: In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena
“It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.”
“It is impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.”
“It is impossible to work in information technology without also engaging in social engineering.”
“It is impossible to worship God acceptably and not come to Him in right relationship to...the Word of God.”
Source: The Heart of Praise: Daily Ways to Worship the Father with Psalms
“It is impossible unless you try”
“It is impossible without humility to enjoy anything - even pride.”
Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton
“It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.”
Source: The seven lamps of architecture
“It is impossible, Bible in hand, to limit Christ's Church to one's own little community. It is everywhere, in all parts of the world; and whatever its external form, frequently changing, often impure, yet the gifts wherever received increase our riches.”
Source: The Work of the Holy Spirit
“It is impossible, by the way, when picking one example of anything, to avoid picking one which is atypical in some sense.”
“It is impossible, except for theologians, to conceive of a world-wide scandal or a universe-wide scandal; the proof of this is the way people have settled down to living with nuclear fission, radiation poisoning, hydrogen bombs, satellites, and space rockets.”
Source: The humanist in the bathtub
“It is impossible, in my mind, to distinguish between the refusal to receive a petition, or its summary rejection by some general order, and the denial of the right of petition.”
“It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.”
Source: Miscellanies: The book of snobs. Sketches and travels in London. Denis Duval
“It is impossible, in principle, to explain any pattern by invoking a single quantity.”
“It is impossible, maybe undesirable, to take partisanship out of the political process.”
“It is impossible, or not easy, to alter by argument what has long been absorbed by habit”
Source: Aristotle: Introductory Readings
“It is impossible, to me at least, to be poetical in cold weather.”
Source: George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus
“It is impressive to see a person who has been battered by life in many ways, who is torn by a variety of unsolved problems, who may be alienated from many aspects of the self-but who is still fighting, still struggling, still striving to find the path to a fulfilling existence, moved by the wisdom of knowing, "I am more than my problems."”
Source: Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality
“It is impressive to see how people work hard to transform their lives, their bodies, and their relationships to become the best version of themselves. Release the layers that weigh you down and hold you back. Release the past and re-emerge to begin your next chapter.”
“It is improper for one person to take credit when it takes so many people to build a successful organization. When you try to be top dong, you don't create loyalty. It you can't give credit (and take blame), you will drown in you inability to inspire.”
“It is in [the] process of making something... that the creator contacts a concrete reality outside his subjective life and moves into the realm of the transcendent.”
“It is in a country's interests to keep faith with its allies. States in this sense are like people. If you have a reputation for exacting favors and not returning them, the favours dry up.”
“It is in a small village in the Pyrenees where no one knows me 7that my life will come to a close.... There is not enough time remaining for me to write all the letters I would like to write.”
“It is in a way a mystery that, instead of demanding that their governments give primary attention to their own needs and aspirations, most of the citizens of big counties-those, that is, that have the status of being "powers" in the world-far from being self-centered or materialistic as they are commonly credited with being, the ordinary citizen and his elected representative all too often turn out to be romantics, ready and eager to sacrifice programs of health, education and welfare for the power and pride of the nation.”
“It is in adversity that the good show their friendship most clearly; prosperity always finds friends.”
“It is in agony we find our soul, ...”
“It is in an all-inclusive People’s Organization that people fight and think as people, as Americans, and not as businessmen, workers, Catholics, Protestants, Jews, whites, or colored. A People’s Organization inevitably smashes all artificial barriers, sectarian interests, religious, nationality, and racial distinctions. It is made up of people, its program is a people’s program, and they think together, work together, fight together, hope together, achieve together, as people.
The issue to be resolved is the creation of a world for the little people, a world where the millions instead of the few can live in dignity, peace, and security.”
Source: Reveille for Radicals
“It is in an artist's real interest to congratulate herself more often: not out of narcissism, but in her role as her own dear friend and advocate.”
Source: Affirmations for Artists
“It is in an ennobled soul only that the universal powers can do their work, especially if body, mind and soul have been equally trained and developed.”
“It is in applied psychology, if anywhere, that today we should be modest and grant validity to a number of apparently contradictory opinions; for we are still far from having anything like a thorough knowledge of the human psyche, that most challenging field of scientific enquiry. For the present we have merely more or less plausible opinions that defy reconciliation.”
“It is in attempting to solve all of my problems on my own that I end up creating some of the greatest problems that I’ll ever own.”
“It is in bed that we learn to bear the inevitable. We are learning this all the time while we lie with our face turned to the wall thinking we are doing nothing.”
Source: What I Have Gathered